postvocalic.
(Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.
Meaning & usage
(Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.
Final post-vocalic /r/ in farmer in English rural dialects of the 1950s (captioning a linguistic map).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- French vocal Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique French vocaliquebor. English vocalic English postvocalic From post- + vocalic.
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